# Meeting notes for February 25th, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-february-25th-2021/19614>\
**Category:** Habitat Community\
**Created:** [February 25, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-february-25th-2021/19614 "2021-02-25T17:37:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-february-25th-2021/19614/1 "2021-02-25T17:37:52Z")

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Below are the meeting notes for this week's Community Meeting, a text-based meeting held weekly in #community-meetings on our community slack, which you can join: [https://community-slack.chef.io/](https://community-slack.chef.io/)

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**DevRel/Community**

benny Vasquez shared

_First thing,_ [_@tas50_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1CDF6JE6) _is doing another webinar today. It’s the second in the Chef QuickFire Infra Series, and he’ll discuss further how to get your Chef Automation in its best shape ever!_ [_Register here_](https://pages.chef.io/202102-Webinar-ConfigureChefInfraComplianceUsingBuilt-InFunctionality_01Register.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=202102_ConfigureChefInfra%26ComplianceUsingBuiltInFunctionality_Webinar) _._

# This week’s releases

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_Infra client’s update included some bug fixes, including one around the mount resource for network mounts (thanks_ [_@ramereth_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2UHD7RQF) _!). We also dropped support for MacOS 10.13. See our_ [_Platform End-of-Life Policy 1_](https://docs.chef.io/platforms/#platform-end-of-life-policy) _for details on the platform lifecycle._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-10-17-released/19575_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-10-17-released/19575)

**Chef Inspec**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Inspec got a bug fix release, too._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-26-13-released/19607_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-26-13-released/19607)

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Workstation’s update actually pulled in a bunch of other stuff, including the bug fixes from Infra Client, and a bunch of updates in Test Kitchen (Thanks to_ [_@tecracer-theinen_](http://github.com/tecracer-theinen) _,_ [_@reasland_](https://github.com/reasland) _,_ [_@JimScadden_](http://github.com/JimScadden) _, and_ [_@Dreweasland_](https://github.com/Dreweasland) _for your contributions!). The notes are here:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-2-292-released/19576_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-2-292-released/19576)

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_kitchen-dokken got a new release with the ability to specify your docker registry so you can use a mirror to avoid the pull limits Docker added. Thanks_ [_@jaymzh_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U293A0VB5) _. We also shipped another bugfix release for kitchen-azurerm to make sure the storage settings all default to the previous defaults. Both of those releases will go out in next week's workstation release_

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

_Hi from the Automate team!_

- _Fixed a bug preventing Postgres backups to be restored on AWS RDS._
- _Working on refactoring the notification service in golang._
- _Added Lint/Unit unit tests for the rewritten notification service._
- _Merged incremental improvements to the compliance profiles that ship with Automate._
- _Removed a number of warning from the Automate habitat studio dev environment._
- _Added the search bar in the Chef Servers screen that deals with Environments._
- _Made improvements to the build pipeline._

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_ **Chef Infra Client team update!** _

- _Continued work to split the knife gem out of the chef gem so we can ship clients w/o management tools / dependencies_
- _knife-opc is now merged into knife itself with more useful command names for folks that don't know what OPC means (way back history here)_
- _Continued work to update Chef Infra Client 17 to Ruby 3_
- _Continued work to store client.pem in the Windows Certificate Store_
- _Our releng-team is working to build out our M1 Mac pipeline so we can start running test builds ASAP_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello Chefs! In the past weeks we have been workin on fixing some issues with the pipelines and the local dev-envs as newer folks continue to get spun up with chef-server._

_There is a lot of work in flight as we prepare for the 14.1 release of Chef Infra Server. This will mainly include fixes and security updates._

_We are also currently testing the Infra Server changes that will be a part of the next Automate release._

- _Testing continues for mtls support for Infra Server. We now have a scenario that will soon be added to the test pipeline that sets up the environment for mtls testing (thanks to our End-2-End Testing team!)_
- _Updated java 11.0.9.1+1 -\> 11.0.10+9_
- _Updated openssl 1.0.2.x -\> 1.0.2.y_
- _Fix for_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/1862_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/1862) _is merged (for automate) and should be available with the next release._
- _Currently reviewing adding support for Elasticsearch 7 for new external Elasticsearch installs. (The default internal Elasticsearch would still be 6.8.1)_
- _Also in review for adding Postgres 12.5 support for new external Postgres isntalls.(The default internal Postgresql would still be 9.6)That is all for us!_

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

_The Chef InSpec team is working on:_

- _Routine dependency updates_
- _Implementing Ruby 3 support_
- _Fixed a problem with plugin loading in kitchen-inspec_
- _Fixed the ssh\_config and sshd\_config resources to properly respect the first value seen when there are duplicates in the file_

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_This week in Workstation..._  
\*\* released 21.2.292\*  
\*\* team getting up to speed on the Electron app, so we can look forward to improvements starting there soon.\*  
\*\* In the current channel the Workstation package will now upgrade DK installations on Linux. This also includes an update to kitchen-dokken with support for\* docker\_registry _configuration (thanks_ [_@jaymzh_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U293A0VB5) _!)_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Here's the list of new releases in the past week:_

- _mysql - 10.0.2: Update_ [_README.md_](http://README.md) _to reflect dropping ubuntu 16.04 support and fixing the cookbook version in the usage section_
- _resolver - 3.0.1: Update Chef -\> Chef Infra in templates_
- _resolver - 3.0.2: Merge resolv.conf options & remove extra colons_
- _yum-centos - 5.1.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_

_We also fixed the Chef Infra Client integration tests we broke when we released the new resolver cookbook last week. We have several other adoption PRs in progress as well by the OSUOSL students._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Auditor_

- _4.26.13 released_

_Cinc Client_

- _16.10.17 released_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _12.2.292 released via unstable channel_
- _Updated epoch_ [_issue_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/issues/1) _to better reflect what's left to get our build ready for stable_
- _Currently planning on removing the chef-workstation-app (NodeJS desktop app) from our builds since it has a lot of word mark issues and also causing issues building on Windows._
- _Current focus is getting the Windows build to work without chef-workstation-app, but running into odd omnibus dependency issues._

_We have started having a public triage zoom meeting bi-weekly starting this week on Wednesday at 11AM PST (1700 UTC). This week, I went through a lot of the older issues on Gitlab and closed a few issues also commented on a few. Our next public triage will be on March 10. I'll send a meeting link in the_ [_#community-distros_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CHLTJ6XP0) _channel when the meeting starts._

_I'm also going to be applying the Cinc Project to join the Software Freedom Conservancy so that we have a formal fiscal sponsor for accepting donations._

**Other updates**

theinen shared

_Well, I released some things this week:_

- _train-vcenter-gom - 0.1.0: establish connections to guest OS via VMware Tools (no direct networking, routing or firewall stuff needed)_

- _kitchen-transport-train - 0.1.0: (based on Train 3.5) Use any existing Train transport with Kitchen. Including the usual_ ssh _/_ winrm

- _trainsh - 0.2.0: preview of a Train 3.5-based shell. This allows most command executions and file transfers via Train transports.All three repos can be found on [_ [_https://github.com/tecracer-chef/_](https://github.com/tecracer-chef/) _] and their Gems are on_ [_rubygems.org_](http://rubygems.org/) _Train 3.5 is bundled with Workstation 21.2.299 and above. If you use an older version, you have to install a newer Train version manually._

## **See you next week!**